Sociolinguistic Perspective on Teaching English Intonation

I have read journal entitled Sociolinguistic Perspective on Teaching English Intonation for Adult Learners by Olga G. Shevchenko.  The journal shows how sociolinguistic approach with the focus on conscious control of using intonation can enhance the communicative performance of students linguistic.

Teachers present a teaching model based on appealing to senses, making students’ egos more permeate and creating favorable socio and psychological conditions to the acquisition of the second language intonation. The organized teaching of L2 should concentrate on building awareness of how pronunciation is acquired, on breaking stereotypes about different nations and on creating a friendly atmosphere where students can feel relaxed and free in expressing their emotions. To improve students’ awareness and maximize students’ skill we can integrate the cognitive, emotional and psychological perspectives in the language learning process. On having awareness of foreign language sounds and intonation students are prepared for further efforts and can control intonation because they get used to listening to a great amount of audio materials and they get used to depicting intonation contours on the paper. Finally, as a future teacher it is important to guide the students to have high motivation and create comfortable atmosphere in the class in order to make the students having well understanding of English course.